Frankenfield Helps Spartans Earn Saturday Split

Apr 04, 2009

YORK, PA – York College junior
right-hander Chris Frankenfield (Blue Bell,
Pa./Wissahickon) made his first collegiate start a
memorable one as he tossed a complete game allowing his Spartan
baseball team to salvage a Capital Athletic Conference doubleheader
split against Wesley College on Saturday afternoon in York. The
Wolverines captured game one 6-5 while the Green and White won game
two 6-1.

York is now 19-6 overall and 9-4 in the Capital Athletic
Conference while the Wolverines are 19-12-1 overall and 8-7 in the
CAC.

Frankenfield earned the spot start as the Spartans have a number
of conference games piling up due to rainouts. Frankenfield entered
the game as one of the top arms in the Spartan pen this year. He
proved that he could do the job as a spot starter as well.

Frankenfield looked like he was going to work his way into
trouble early as it took him 23 pitches to navigate the opening
inning. He walked two and had a throwing error in the frame but
managed to work out of trouble thanks to a pick off, a fly out and
a strikeout.

The Spartan junior settled down and was much more efficient in
the second, setting the stage for the Spartan offense in the bottom
of the inning. C.T. Stanley (Timonium, Md./Calvert Hall
College) reached on a throwing error and then rode home
two batters later as Chris Young (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Red Land)
jacked a two-out, two-run homer to deep right, giving York 2-0
lead.

Frankenfield continued to hold the Wesley bats in check as he
allowed a third inning single, a fourth inning walk, and a runner
to reach via error in the fifth.

The Spartans added three huge insurance runs in the fifth
courtesy of a Kyle Cook (Pylesville, Md./North
Harford) two out RBI single. Cook then got to trot home
when Mike Connolly (Selden, N.Y./Newfield) ripped
a two-run homer to right, pushing the Spartan lead to 5-0.

Matt Monti (Easton, Pa./Easton) had an RBI
infield single with the bases loaded in the sixth to provide York
with their sixth run of the game.

The Wolverines finally got to Frankenfield in the seventh with
an unearned run but the junior closed out the game for his first
career complete game.

Frankenfield improves to 2-0 with the win as he allowed just one
unearned run on four hits with four strikeouts and three walks. He
needed 96 pitches to venture through the seven innings as he saved
the Spartan pen.

Colin Warner suffered the loss as he allowed five runs, three
earned, on five hits with four strikeouts and one walk in five
innings of action. Warner falls to 3-4 with the loss. Ryan Doran
allowed a run on two hits in his third of an inning of work while
Chris Koch tossed two thirds of an inning and allowed one hit with
one walk and a strikeout.

Young led the Spartan offense as he was 2-for-2 with two RBI and
a run scored. Cook added two hits with an RBI and a run scored in
three at-bats. Connolly was 1-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Monti was 1-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored for York.

Stu Madden led the Wolverines with two hits and an RBI. Geoff
Kimmel and Tyler Burns had the other hits for Wesley.
Game one was a disappointing contest for the home standing Spartans
as York had an early 1-0 lead. Senior Ryan Poff (York,
Pa./Spring Grove) had a sacrifice fly in the first to put
York up a run but the Spartans could have had more as they left two
runners stranded in the frame.

The Wolverines reached Spartan starter Jason
Christenberry (Yoe, Pa./Dallastown) in the fourth.
Christenberry walked the first two hitters of the frame as it set
the stage for a huge Wolverine frame. Christenberry then got a
strikeout and a fly out as it looked like he might get out of the
jam. Bryan Reshetar then hit a line drive home run into the wind in
right that just cleared the 14-foot wall, giving the Wolverines a
3-1 lead.

Not to be deterred, the Spartans tied the game in the bottom of
the fifth with an RBI single from Cook and a two-run double to
center from Connolly, knotting the game at three.

Each team scored single runs in the sixth, setting the stage for
the fateful seventh inning. The Wolverines got two runs on two hits
in the seventh. Greg McKee broke the 4-4 tie with an RBI
double. McKee advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored the
eventual game winner on a Madden sacrifice fly to right.

The Spartans got one of those runs back in the seventh inning
but a double play short-circuited the rally as the Wolverines
escaped with a game-one win.

DJ Keckler earned the win for the Wolverines as he allowed five
runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and two walks in 6.1
innings of work. He improves to 5-1 with the win. Kyle McGuire
picked the final two outs of the game to earn the save, his second
of the season.

Christenberry suffered the loss as he allowed six runs on five
hits with two walks and six strikeouts in 6.1 innings of work. He
falls to 4-1 with the loss.

Reshetar led the Wolverines as he was 3-for-3 with three RBI and
two runs scored. McKee added a hit, an RBI, and a run scored.
Kevin Murphy added a hit and two runs scored for Wesley.

Cook led the Spartan offense as he banged out four hits for the
second time in three games. He was 4-for-4 with three runs scored.
Connolly was 2-for-4 with two RBI while Poff was 1-for-2 with two
RBI. Rob Andrews (East Northport, N.Y./Commack)
came off the bench and was 2-for-2 with an RBI.

The Spartans return to action on Monday afternoon as they travel
to Stevenson University to face the Mustangs in a makeup CAC twin
bill. Game one is set for a 3:30 pm start.